Farinaceous product handling system

ABSTRACT

A farinaceous product handling system wherein loaded trays are fed into a multi level elevator. A multilevel mobile rack is aligned with shelves of the loaded elevator, after which a pusher discharges all elevator shelves onto the aligned rack shelves.

United States Patent lnventor Appl. No. Filed Patented Assignee Hiram E.Temple Saginaw, Mich.

Feb. 15, 1969 Division of Ser. No. 508,684, Nov. 19, 1965, Pat. No.3,466,835.

June 15 197 1 Baker Perkins Inc.

Saginaw, Mich.

FARINACEOUS PRODUCT HANDLING SYSTEM 5 Claims, 36 Drawing Figs.

0.8. CI 2l4/l6.4, 214/38 Int. Cl 365g 1/06 Field of Search 2 1 4/1 6.4,

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 10/1899 Condict 104/34 10/1919Claus 214/164 (2) 11/1926 McClelland 2l4/l6.6 5/1930 Puller 2l4/l6.610/1930 Davis 2l4/l6.6 7/1953 Newbold 2l4/16.6X 3/1958 Stevenson et a1.214/38 (.20) 1/1969 Gerrans 53/152 X FOREIGN PATENTS 5/1949 France100/196 6/1953 Germany 2 14/166 Primary Examiner-Gerald M. ForlenzaAssistant Examiner-Raymond B. Johnson Attorney- Learman, Learman andMcCullock ABSTRACT loaded trays mobile rack A farinaceous producthandling system wherein are fed into a multi level elevator. Amultilevel is aligned with shelves of, the loaded elevator,

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2. The combination defined in claim 1 in which said lift member meanscomprises horizontally extending rails provided at the sides of the zonein a position in which they do not interfere with movement of a loadedrack out of the zone; and vertically extending lift arm means isprovided on an overhead portion of said frame means for raising saidrails to engage and lift the rack.
 3. The combination defined in claim 2in which said rails extend transversely to the path of loading travel ofsaid pusher means; and means is operative to move a rack transverselyforwardly into said zone and remove it transversely forwardly from saidzone, before and after loading of said rack respectively.
 4. Apparatusfor loading products such as bread loaves in containers into a rack in arack loading zone with vertically spaced shelf strip means forsupporting the containers between them comprising: frame means; meansdefining a rack loading zone at one end thereof for an oblong rackhaving opposed side surfaces and opposed end surfaces; an elevatormechanism adjacent the rack loading zone having vertically spaced shelfmeans vertically spaced to correlate with the shelf strip means of therack; means for indexing the shelf means of the elevator upwardly;pusher means extending vertically alongside the shelf means of theelevator on the side thereof opposite a rack to be loaded and verticallyspanning a plurality of vertically spaced shelf means; means for feedingcontainers to successive shelf means of said elevator mechanism afterindexing movement thereof; means moving said pusher means through saidelevator and over to said rack to be loaded to move the containerssimultaneously from the shelf means of the elevator to the shelf stripmeans of the rack to be loaded; clamps supported on said frame meansaround the loading zone movable from a position out of engagement with arack in the zone to a position to exert opposing inward forces on thesaid side and end surfaces of the rack to ''''square'''' the rack; andmeans synchronized to move the clamps to engage and ''''square'''' therack prior to the time the means for operating the pusher means to loadthe rack is actuated.
 5. The combination defined in claim 4 in whichvertically disposed rotatable shafts are disposed at the four corners ofthe loading zone and said clamps comprise rack engaging clamp armsthereon swingable to and from rack ''''squaring'''' position; andoperating means revolves said shafts to clamp the corners of the rack inthe zone and then release said arms to a position in which they do notinterfere with movement of the rack out of the zone, when a rack hasbeen loaded.